# A new trust level: The Helpful member?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-new-trust-level-the-helpful-member/56894>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 4, 2017, 9:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-new-trust-level-the-helpful-member/56894 "2017-02-04T09:12:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-new-trust-level-the-helpful-member/56894/14 "2017-02-06T21:25:57Z")

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I may be missing something, but it seems to me that a Staff member could do a “hey, this members is great” and lock their Trust Level at 3 to by-pass any auto-demotion from happening.

A bit more manual work, but easier than trying to come up with an algorithm to let code do it.

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